David Miliband

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Sunday 16 November, 2008

Congo Crisis

Following the Prime Minister's meeting with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon on Thursday, Mark Malloch-Brown flies to the DRC today, arriving in the capital Kinshasa on Monday (then to Goma and Kigali).  Britain remains fully engaged on the Congo crisis.  Our humanitarian aid is in country.  We support the UN Secretary General's recommendation for extra UN troops.  And we are fully supportive of the mission of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on behalf of the UN, to mediate steps back from the brink on the basis of the Nairobi and Goma accords.  This is not about political settlement or humanitarian aid or military protection: it is about all three.  Mark Malloch-Brown will see for himself the needs and judge the response; there are places where aid is not being delivered and where the ceasefire is not holding.  We need to fix this.  And the risk of a serious deterioration of the situation remains acute; we remain vigilant in trying to prevent it.

Posted at 15:37 16 November 2008 by David Miliband  |  Comments[3]

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In this moment and time Congolese population are suffering for the wealth of their country but migration has been a big problem over the world and is one of the cause of different war. congolese people are been murdered daily and are dying for what? international commit should act now either way negotiation, sending troops or resolution. at the moment the president Kabila is unable to do anything about the war because different cause of his origin and the way he come to power andthis is what it causing a lot of problem because is the big obstacle because is lost do know who to support: give support to his new country or taking orders from is old commander from Kigali. kabila has been commanding soldier not to fight for several occassion and this lead congolese army seem weak over the weekend their refused to follow his command and the result he fired the commander. I am deeply concern about the evolution of the congolese conflit I loose slept. i am looking the way to participate on the resolution that is the only way i can repay my mother country

Posted by Patrick Lukusha on November 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM GMT #

David, As far as the aid to North Kivu goes, what is being done for the children who are getting lost from family as they flee in the fighting? I saw this in the news reports. Is there any hope of any infrastructure developments, even to help this frightening problem? Regards, Rebecca

Posted by Rebecca Thorn on November 19, 2008 at 05:53 PM GMT #

what is being done to stop the killing and raping of women and young girls in the aids camps?

Posted by zaynab khalifa on November 21, 2008 at 11:52 AM GMT #

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